David Nugent is on a list of probables ready to fill an aching QPR gap.

The 31-year-old Middlesbrough striker ticks the boxes needed to turn round a wretched run of six without a point in which Hoops have scored just once - and that a consolation in a 2-1 home defeat to Wolves.

Defeat to Brighton yesterday merely compounded what everyone knows at Loftus Road.

The world and his Football League wife would like Boro striker Jordan Rhodes in the January window, but a £60k-a-week wage packet along with different Rs needs suggest Nugent on loan could be a better fit.

The former Leicester hit man has a pedigree for holding the ball up in attack that brings other midfielders into play, and Rangers have a fair few.

Jordan Rhodes, Ben Gibson, David Nugent with fans
One of three: Not him on the left, Jordan Rhodes, or him in the centre, Ben Gibson, but David Nugent on the right

Rhodes is very similar to Conor Washington at QPR in that both can run on to balls slipped in behind the defence and one-on-one are terrific strikers.

Rangers are determined to turn Washington’s form around after his £2m move from Peterborough in January, despite scoring only twice in 38 league matches.

Nugent, like Rhodes, is behind the Boro pecking order in attack, and has notched only 39 Premier League minutes this season, scoring once, ironically against Rs neighbours Fulham in the EFL Cup in August.

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